Add a few simple words which could be your names or a short love message and have these printed on a stunning love heart design. The Valentines cushion is not just great looking and romantic; it is also comfortable and practical as well as being great quality and long lasting. The Book Of Love Photo books and albums are a good way to show off a large number of pictures. The Book of Love is a unique design that offers the gift giver the chance to include messages of love or captions on every page and is available as either a photo album or photo book variation. This can be a great way to update old romantic photos and you can even use the opportunity to update some of your partners favourite wedding photos. Valentines Puzzles Wooden jigsaw puzzles can also be converted into personalised gift ideas for any event.

This was where young men drew young womens names from a box to commemorate their rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The chooser and chosen would then be paired for one year. These random pairings often led to marriage. The Church of course didnt like the pagan festival so Pope Galasius the bishop of Rome amended this celebration slightly. He filled the box with the names of dead saints instead of girls and allowed both men and women to draw from the box. He believed this would encourage youngsters to copy the ways of the saint for the remainder of the year. On 14th February 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius declared this day to be Saint Valentines Day an official Catholic Holiday. By the early 1700s the United States started celebrating this day of love by swapping love notes and exchanging Valentines gifts for boyfriends girlfriends wives and husbands.

Legend One As one of the legends goes in the 3rd century there lived a priest named Valentine. The Roman Emperor Claudius II was ruling at this time and Valentine like many of the public under Claudius rule disliked him with a passion. Claudius wanted all men to join the army. But because men had wives and families of their own these men werent so keen on signing up. Believing a singleton soldier was a better soldier than a married young man Claudius introduced a callous new law which banned marriage ceremonies. In Claudius opinion this would mean more strong young men would join the army with no wives at his disposal. Valentine the priest thought this new law was outrageous so what did he do? He married couples in secret.